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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:38:05 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Stephen Hocking <shocking@houston.rr.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 16 port 10/100 hubs/switches.
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.1001031233401.54189A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <200010312311.e9VNBLG21298@bloop.craftncomp.com>

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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote:

:I just went out & bought a D-Link 10/100 switch. There was another 16 port 
:10/100 switch on sale by netgear, for twice the price. Now I've established 
:that they're both switches (as opposed to hubs) and the three machines I 
:current have connected to it have sucessfully negotiated 100Mbs full-duplex 
:(speed is great!). Is there any reasons why I should've considered the netgear 
:unit? I didn't see anything on the box (after a rather cursory perusal) on it 
:about managability, SNMP et cetera.

Probably not.  If you don't see performance or reliability problems, no.
It's conceivable that one switch can't do 100MB full duplex to every port
at the same time.  It might, or might not, be the cheaper one.  Without test
equipment its hard to say.  (I've got a 5 port Dlink that I bought about New
Year's, which has been great.)  


David



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